NHBR About Town: Hampshire First Bank
James Dunphy, president of Hampshire First Bank, presents a $2,500 donation to Jeanine Tousignant, CEO of the Manchester Community Music School, to support the school's New Hampshire Youth Jazz Ensemble.
New Hampshire Business Review - November 5 2011
NHBR About Town: New Hampshire Lottery
During a hearing of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade -- where he was testifying about the status of Internet gaming in the U.S. -- Charlie McIntyre, executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery,…
NHBR About Town: Manchester Community Health Center
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, third from left, visits with Manchester Community Health Center president Edward George, physician assistant Igbal Mohamed and Dr. Laura Fry, its medical director, to find out about the challenges facing MCHC as a result of budget…
Q&A with Tampa Bay outfielder Sam Fuld
Since he was a young boy, Sam Fuld wanted to be a big league baseball player, but he started with two strikes against him. First, he was from New Hampshire (Durham to be exact), where snow covers the baseball diamond…
Demographics and the "New Hampshire Advantage"
We're all fairly familiar with the concept of demographics and how important they are to businesses in determining where to locate. Most frequently we hear about retailers looking at population density, age, median income and educational levels, but other types…
Banks, lawyers team up for $28m partnership
Twenty-eight million dollars isn't small change. That's how much has been raised for legal services for the poor and law-related education programs over the past 30 years in New Hampshire through the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts program.IOLTA is a…
More losses as 2011 closes
This column is not supposed to be the obituary page for New Hampshire Business Review! However, when significant losses occur in the political or business world in New Hampshire, as part of the documenting of history, I like to note…
What were our U.S. senators thinking?
There are not a lot of things about which New Hampshire Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Free Staters agree. But one such cornerstone in the foundation of our identity has to be the sanctity with which we hold our traditional freedoms.Rather…
Casinos would bring needed jobs to N.H. families
There seems to be an endless debate in politics about whether government creates jobs. One thing is undeniable: Government certainly can get in the way of job creation by passing bad policy or inaction.One dose of good policy that would…
Education is failing because of inefficiency
To the editor:J. Bonnie Newman, interim chancellor of the Community College System of New Hampshire, laments about the ever-rising burden of debt Granite State students carry upon leaving college ("N.H.'s dubious, and dangerous, distinction," Dec. 2-15 NHBR).The hard truth is…
